IV. THE MIXED MARRIAGES OF THE JEWS (Chapter nine) A. THE NARRATIVE Some time after Ezra arrived in Jerusalem, the princes of Israel came to him and informed him that some of the Jews of Palestine, even some of the priests and the Levites, had not kept themselves separated from the heathen peoples of the land and their abominable practices but had intermarried with them, the Jewish princes and the rulers being the chief trespassers. When Ezra heard this report, he openly manifested his grief and